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ATHENA. ORE.. JUNE 12.
1908
The Daily Tribune approves of the
Leader's suggestion that county bonds
be issued for a crushed rock road ex
, tending from Pendleton to Milton.
"Very well," says the Weston paper,
"let's get about it, present the facts,
the probable coat, the number of peo
ple served, and bring about a special
eleotion for the issuance of bonds. The
money even would not be wasted.
Practically every dollar would remaio
iu the oonnty. The material comes
out of its own soil, the wages would
be paid in a large measure to its own
people. When the dollars were placed
in circulation within our borders we
would have a splendid highway 43
miles long, as permanent as the roads
of Napoleon to which the Tribune re
fers, quoting Dr. C. J. Smith. We
.would get also a vast amount of free
advertising of the right sort better
than any publicity campaign has as
yet invented at so muoh per boost."
The federal government has recently
served notice through its postal au
thorities, to rural communities hav
ing free delivery of mail, that the
roads must be improved and kept in
good condition in certain localities or
the free delivery of mail will be dis
continued in those particular places.
Uncle Sam can hardly be expeoted to
deliver mail over roads that are next
to impassable. In new and sparsely
settled communities very bad roads
are sometimes excusable, tut rural
routes for the free delivery of mail are
seldom established in snob plaoes.
There is little excuse, generally speak
ing, for impassable roads wnere tne
population is sufficiently dense to jus
tify the establishment of free rural
routes. '
Ten years ago an Allen County,
Kan., farmer put his initials on a dol
lar bill. The next day he went to the
nearest town and spent it with a mer
chant. . Before the year was out he
got the dollar back. Four times in six
pears the dollar oame back to him for
produce, and three times he heard of
;t in the pookets of bis neighbors. The
iast time he got it baok was four years
go. He sent it to a mail order house
"Ha never saw that dollar since, and
lever will. That dollar bill will never
jiay any more sohool or road tax for
iim, will never build or brighten any
if the homes of the community. He
ent it entirely out of the usefulness
o himself and to bis neighbors when
be sent it to the mail order bouse.
he moral is plain.
Alex. Johnson well kuown as a
iareful and suooessful farmer, sounds
note of warniug that should be
keeded. It relates to the white
bustard or "Jim Hill mustard, .
lapidly getting a foothold throughout
!ae East End. . It may be seen in the
ines and occasionally in the wheat
elds this year next year it may mul-
iply an hundred fold. Mr. Johnson
my a that every plant should be. out
jown and destroyed at once. He has
een the pest spread elsewhere, and
knows that it is a menacing thing, not
1 1 be disregarded An immediate ap
jlioation of the motto, "A stitch in
t me saves nine," may be worth tbou
e inds of dollars to the wheat belt Let
9ery farmer look after his own field
4d the supervisors after the roads
timonisbes the Weston Leader.
Some newspaper men are great pre-
tiricators. One of them wrote about a
i
oolone, saying that it turned a well
vrong side up in Mississippi, turned
a cellar upside down in Wisconsin,
rjoved a township line in Nebraska,
bjew all the staves out of a whiskey
lirrel in Iowa and left nothing but
tie bung hole, changed the day of the
reek in Ohio, killed an honest lawyer
iij the west, blew the hair off a bald
bladed man in Texas, killed a faithful
dlctor in Illinois, blew the mortgage
of a farm in Kansas, scared a red
tuired woman in Michigan, blew
ciacks out of a fence in Dakota, and
took all tbe wind out of a politician
is MissonrL
Only in America could tbe Gonness
murder farm with its gruesome asso
ciations be transformed over night in
to a Coney island, with tbe picture
postal vender and tbe taker out in
force and a crowd of 15,000 people
arriving daily' by train and trolly car,
and automobile, searching for ghastly
souvenirs.
In the valley around Cove, Oregon,
there will, be produoed this year two
hundred tons of cherries and five hun
dred cars of apples. Tbe people there
realize that they will need from two
hundred and fifty to three hundred
people in addition to their looal popu
lation to pick and pack the cherry
orop.
It is probably just as well tbat con
gress hasn't acquired tbe habit of ad
journing out of respect for a dead bill,
but it seems remarkable tbat it Ehould
sine die so quick after tbe death of
Ship Subsidy Bill, lost in tbe contagion
that carried 610-acie Homestead Bill,
et. al., to untimely graves.
After figuring for some time on ton
nage, displacement, sailing oapaoity,
etc. Congressman Hobson has con
cluded tbat tbe American navy ought
to do strengthened. In a matter of
this kind tbe most sensible thing to do
would be to let Hobson. have bis
choice.
We don't know what Mr. Hearst in
teuds doing with his new party. As
a pretty plaything it will doubtless
afford him and tbe rest of the oountry
a vast deal of amusement. It will
never amount to much as a political
organization ; at most it will serve as a
sort of baven of rest for discredited
and broken down politicians.
With the election over and the
assurance of a great crop, tbe people
of all Oregon should "get busy" and
advertise more than ever befoie. With
its latest addition, tbe Toledo Develop
ment League, the Oregon Development
League now has eighty-three members
Now army offioers must Walk ten
miles a day of three days. The test is
so easy as to seem almost superfluous.
Anyone who cannot do tbat is in line
for retirement as an invalid.
Under tbe new national banking
law, approved May 80tb, Oregon's
added quota of currency will be
$2,111,000.
By Rev. Israel Putnam.
Tbe body is next to tbe soul. The
soul cannot be fully strong and aotlve
in a weak, sickly body. Both must
be healthy to do healthy Bervioe. We
have been talking, of late, about the
soul in some of its relations. Inas
much as tbe soul, with all tbe term
means, oannot perform its full funo
tions in a weak unbealtny body, we
bave thought best to descend to tbe
house in whioh the soul, or real man.
lives, and say -a little about, (only
one thing However) its fitness for
co-operation in usefulness with its dis
tinguished guest. There are various
causes for the ills of life. But About
25 years, in my present oalling, east,
west, north and south ; in different
climates, among different olasses, vis
iting and lodging thousands of times,
all the way from the cottage of tbe
peasant, in his rural surroundings, to
tbe mansions of the rioh in tbe great
cities has oonvinced me, thoroughly,
tbat to no one souroe can more of tbe
little ills of life be traoed than to im
proper ventilation ;'unless it be to im
proper nse of food: And tbe saddest
thing about it is so many do not seem
to know where tbe trouble originated
nor bow to get rid of it, and so send
for the doctor, or a drug, when in most
oases raised windows and opened doors
is tbe best possible remedy.
True, all people do not require tbe
same amount of pure air; some natures
being differently . constituted require
less oxygen than others, but no nature
can thrive or live very long witbout it
and tbe more of it within reasonable
bounds, day or night, tbe better, exoept
perhaps in some peouliar oases of sick
ness, and in some special periods of tbe
disease when less would be prudent.
Tbe windows and doors should be jSver
all closed tight for more than a very
few minutes at one time, unless in
some very extreme case. . Where there
two or more windows in a room at least
one should be down a little at tbe top
and another on the opposite side of tbe
room, if so arranged, should be up a
little from tbe bottom, so pure air may
come in, and impure air go out, and
this should never be otherwise when
tbe house is ocoupied, exoept perhaps
in times of heavy, cold storms, or
some other extreme cases and . then
only until the worst is over.
Deprived of the necessary quantity
of oxygen to fill the requirements of
the svstem, which are circulatory in
their nature, train fog, weakness of
the nerves, impoverishment of tbe tis
sues, and other derangements, and dis
arrangements make tbe human body,
which will generally suffer little pain,
or other serious ills, when nature's laws
are properly regarded, susceptible to
diseases of both body and soul, some
times proving fatal.
Tbe necessity of constantly and con
tinuously renewing the air whenever
living beings, (animals ia some degree
as well as men ) are breathing, arises
chiefly from tbe effects produced upon
air in tbe lungs The average amount
of carbonic acid in expired air is found
to be 4.3 per cent by regular measure.
This gas when breathed into tbe
lungs is a poison and bap a tendenoy
to arrest and stagnate all the vital pro
cesses. Like other poisons, bowever,
it can be rendered harmless by tbe pro
cess of dilution. Tbe small propor
tion existing in tbe atmosphere is en
tirely innocuous and may be some
what increased witbout sensible re
sult But notwithstanding this, it is
positively prejudicial to breathe, for
any considerble time, air containing
one measure to one hundred of oar-
booi3aoid;and it is considered, by tbe
best authorities, tbat tho proportion
ougbt not to exoeed one in five hun
dred. We may assume there, what is
not very far from the truth, that
twenty cublo feet of air pass through
the lungs of a man in one bonr. To
reduce tbe poison of this to one per
cent, at which it is barely respirable,
it requires to mingle with as much fresh
air as will make a mixture of nearly
one hundred cubic feet; and to make
tbe dilution entirely safe it must be
carried five times aa far. It is seen,
then, in other words, that tbe respira
tion of one human being vitiates,
every hour, not far from five hundred
cubio feet of air.
In addition to oarbonio acid, expired
air contains seemingly an undue pro
portion of watery vapor. Minute quan
tities of animal matter is also exhaled
with tbe breath, wbiob in close ill-
ventilated apartments form a kind of
olammy deposit on furniture and
walls, which by purifying beoome or
ganic poisons. And for one aoous
tomed to plenty of pure air to enter
such rooms is sickening absolutely be
yond enduranoe.
A further necessity for constant re
newal of fresh air arises whenever
lights, of almost any kind, are burn
ing. Tbe deteriorated air of fire? in
a stove or fire-place largely goes off by
the flue, lest the produots of lights
are always minding with tbe atmos
phere of tbe room and so must of
course be taken into tbe lungs. Odors,
especially from lamps, or lanterns
turned down, beoome very offensive.
Lamps should never be turned down
and left burning all night, as is often
done by many well meaning people,
not only beoause they help poison tbe
air, but beoause they sometimes ex
plode and destroy muoh property and
sometimes many lives. Now, one
pound of oil in burning consumes tbe
oxygen of thirteen feet of air, and pro
dues a large amount of water in vapor,
and also of oarbonio aoid. Every on bio
foot of gas oonsumes the oxygen of ten
feet of air, and forms, at least, one
foot of carbonio aoid, besides these
watery vapors, often mixed with sul
phurous fumes. And to oounteract
these various sources of pollution and
keep the air sufficiently pure and
wholesome, in rooms where many per
sons are breathing, it is ascertained
by paiustaking investigation and aotual
demonstration in practice, that, on an
average, about twenty cubio feet of
fresh air per minute for eaoh individ
ual, must be supplied.
There are various prooesses by wbiob
this is accomplished, viz. the fire
draught, fans, pumps, transference
of beat from used air to tbe fresh,
and others; but no doubt the quickest,
cheapest and most effeotive is to open
the outside windows, or doors or both,
and let God's pure, invigorating health
giving life-sustaining air ciroulate
freely and frequently through every
room in the bouse, especially when
oooking, washing, mopping ironing eto
are in progress, in order that the foul
smoke, steam etc, may at once es
nape so that it will not remain to
poison tbe air that is to be received
into the lunge.
When rooms have been for a long
time with no, or little, ventilatiou a
few minutes, or even hours of airing
out will not right tbe wrongs, but two
or three days is required to remove the
foul odor of unaired beds (and even
then it cannot be done witbout wash
ing) and other things and oleanse out
the nauseating smell that always exists
in improperly ventilated, rooms. There
should never be entire absence of pure
air from the lungs and never can be
without injury to tbe .system. So
many outings, by business men, would
not be neoessary if stores, banks,
offices, hotels eta, were properly aired.
Sohool rooms should never be closed
tightly while school is in progress.
Preachers, teachers, lawyers, doctors
and all publio menjandwomen sbonld
faithfully warn tbe people against tbe
dangers arising from unclean breath
ing. Churobes should always be will
aired for about two hours, at least just
previous to using, and the longer the
better, for it is impossible to have too
muoh fresh air.
Probably at least two thirds ot tbe
eomnolenoe, and other forms of slow
ness and sluggishness, prevailing in
the pew, is due to too muoh beat and
too little pure air, also tbe sermon is
often below par from tbe same cause.
Opening of doors, for the ordinary
duties of everyday life is by no means
sufficient ventilation for any home,
and mnoh of tbe disagreeable head
ache, and sleepy, tired feeling etc., in
the sitting room and kitoben is be
cause of too little cool, pure, air.
DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills
are prompt and thorough and will in
a very short time strengthen tbe weak
ened kidneys. Sold by Palace Drug
Company.
When a child wakes up In the middle of the
night with a severe attack of croup as fre
quently happens, no time should be lost In
exDerlmentini with remedies of a doubtful
alne. Prompt nrlUm is often iiect-ssarjr to
save lire.
Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy
has never been known to fall In any case and
H has been in um; fur over one-third of a Cen
tura. Thvra is lumii tx tu r. It ran be de
pended upo a, W hvexjM-riuM-ntV It In pleasant
CrouiD
JJ
to take ana contains no tiarmrni drug, rrico,
Zj Cunts; large size, M) cents.
Sold By Palace Drug Co.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve Wins.
Tom Moore, of Rural Route 1, Coch
ran, Ga., writes: "I had a bad sore
come on the instep of my foot and
could find nothing tbat would heal it
until I applied Bucklen's Arnica Salve
Less than half of a 25 cent box won
tbe day for me by affecting a perfeot
cure." Sold under guarantee at Pal
aoe Drug Co's. store.
Kennedy's Laxative Cougb Syrup is
the one tbat children like so well to
take as it tastes nearly as good as ma
ple sugar. It acts geuli; yet freely
on tbe bowels and thereby it drives
the oold out of tbe system. It is sold
by Palace Drug Co.
The Best Pills Ever Sold.
"After dootoring 1 5 years for cbronio
indigestion, acd spending over two
hundred dollars, nothing has done me
as much good as Dr. King's New Life
Pills. I consider them tbe beet pills
ever sold:" writes B. F. Aysoue, of
Ingleside, N. C Sold'under guarantee
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St Louis 67.50
St Paul 63.15
Omaha..... 60.00
Kansas City 60.00
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June 5, 6, 19, 20
July 6, 7, 22. 23
August 6, 7, 21, 22
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